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Medicine Scientific Area Committee

The Medicine Scientific Area Committee (SAC) provides strategic direction, serves as a platform to integrate similar standards activities across multiple forensic science disciplines, and manages the activities of the following subcommittees:

Forensic Anthropology

Medicolegal Death Investigation

Forensic Nursing

Members

Elissia Conlon, SAC Chair, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner

Owen Middleton, SAC Vice Chair, Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office

Eric BartelinkForensic Anthropology Subcommittee Chair, California State University, Chico

Kelly Keyes, Medicolegal Death Investigation Subcommittee Chair, RTI International

Joyce Williams, Forensic Nursing Subcommittee Chair, Stevenson University

Jennifer Badger, SAC Member (Quality), Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Forensic Services

Laurie Kepros, SAC Member (Legal), Office of the State Public Defender, State of Colorado

Mark Lancaster, SAC Member (Statistics) Northern Kentucky University

Erin Morris, SAC Member (Human Factors), Los Angeles County Public Defender

Created August 28, 2020, Updated November 17, 2025
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